Who cooks?

[Plumbstar Tom]

love cooking

I make most of my own sauces including:

Plum Sauce
Orange Sauce
Sweet and Sour
BBQ (includes cola and beer!)
Cheese sauce
plus many others

I am a massive fan of meat cooked properly, I wont over cook chicken, pork or steak or anything like that. So if you dont like meat that is sometimes still pink (not chicken) dont eat my cooking.

I am a steak connoisseur in the making. Saying 'I like my steak medium rare' is going to upset me as I will reply which steak?.

Home cooking for me becomes a real passion, I love trialling new things even if it goes wrong

Home made curries are the best, and having a real taste pallette for which spice you need to add a little more of is a real dream but still I try

 

[zeebeedee]

love cooking

I make most of my own sauces including:

Plum Sauce
Orange Sauce
Sweet and Sour
BBQ (includes cola and beer!)
Cheese sauce
plus many others

I am a massive fan of meat cooked properly, I wont over cook chicken, pork or steak or anything like that. So if you dont like meat that is sometimes still pink (not chicken) dont eat my cooking.

I am a steak connoisseur in the making. Saying 'I like my steak medium rare' is going to upset me as I will reply which steak?.

Home cooking for me becomes a real passion, I love trialling new things even if it goes wrong

Home made curries are the best, and having a real taste pallette for which spice you need to add a little more of is a real dream but still I try

Anyone who has steak well done doesn't like steak!

 

[Dotty]

Anyone who has steak well done doesn't like steak!

cut its horns off and wipe its arse, that's about right for me!

 

[julesverne]

never did much cooking till i watched rick steins indian programme and bought the book. curries do taste better when you make yourself or follow them from a good recipe. but you cant a proper indian curry they are heaven.
steak done medium rare on the barbie works for me.

i do a mean pork belly roast

 

[JCplumb]

love cooking

I make most of my own sauces including:

Plum Sauce
Orange Sauce
Sweet and Sour
BBQ (includes cola and beer!)
Cheese sauce
plus many others

I watched that hairy bikers thing when they went round Asia, thoroughly enjoyed it too.
Got me when they got invited to someones house to eat home made sweet and sour. The shorter one of the two looked at the camera and said 'I've always wanted to know how to make authentic sweet and sour sauce'.
He patiently watched the old Chinese lady chopping her pineapples, peppers, onions and prepping the chicken. All the ingredients were cooking away and her 'authentic sauce' was a commercial-sized bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup!

As for my faves to make, they are: chicken chasseur, beef stroganof and sausage casserole. The chicken chasseur I make is from a recipe I learned when I was playing at being a chef in a castle in Wales for a couple of years. The second chef was an old Navy chef called John and he was amazing, his game pie was to die for but he never let on to any of us how he made the gravy for it 🙁 I know there was about 4 pints of Guinness in it.
He had a book from about 1920 on how to cook for royalty, one of the recipes showed how to cook an elephants foot...

 

[WHPES]

Just did Jamaican coconut chicken (not out of a jar that is!) tonight. Yesterday was Chinese pork with choi sum and salt egg. At the weekend we had Latvian Pelmeni (dumplings) with sour cream and spinach.

Don't often get the chance to experiment but am working mornings this week and spending afternoons in.

 

[PlumbersMate]

Cooking is one thing I wish I was good at, but being that my missus is a chef by trade I've never needed to. I do make a blinding pork chops in honey mustard sauce, the sauce of which I make myself, but that's really it tbh

 

[Dotty]

Just did Jamaican coconut chicken (not out of a jar that is!) tonight. Yesterday was Chinese pork with shoi sum and salt egg. At the weekend we had Latvian Pelmeni (dumplings) with sour cream and spinach.

Don't often get the chance to experiment but am working mornings this week and spending afternoons in.

we had sausage and chips.

sausages were hand made by our local butcher.

 

[Dotty]

one of the tastiest stews I made was while drunk and out camping.

take.....

1 tin stewing steak
1 tin mixed veg
1 tin baked beans
1 tin potatoes
most of a can of Guinness

drain the spuds and the veg, mix all ingredients in a large saucepan over a camp fire, simmer for 20 minutes or so, consume with bread and more guinness.

 

[Whyme]

Kids choice tonight..Fish finger sandwiches..(i'm starving)

^^^Mmmmmm stew^^^^

 

[stevetheplumber]

sweet chilli pork
one tender loin sliced thinly
one large onion thinly sliced
4 dried chillis more or less depending how hot you like it
spoon full of fish sauce
a bunch of corriander
half pound of dark brown sugar
soften the onions in a wok crumble the dried chillies in near the end
add the pork stir fry till its sealed
add sugar and fish sauce and a little splash of water
stir till all the sugar has disolved
add some chopped corriander
simmer for ten mins and serve in bowls over sticky rice

 

[stevetheplumber]

I bake a lot of fish but do a mean chicken and spinach curry though.......all from base ingredients and not paste......hate coriander!

is it the seeds /ground spice or the plant you dont like as they taste completely different

 

[stevetheplumber]

had freshly picked corn on the cob yesterday it was amazingly sweet
my real forbidden fruit is scallops fried gently in butter and garlic

 

[Dotty]

had freshly picked corn on the cob yesterday it was amazingly sweet
my real forbidden fruit is scallops fried gently in butter and garlic

I actually went scrumping the other week as some of the crops being grown around us at the moment are corn.

I couldn't resist eating an ear, raw, on the way home, so very sweet and absolutely gorgeous!

 

[Whyme]

Rhubarb dipped in sugar..

 

[Irish]

I couldn't resist eating an ear, raw, on the way home, so very sweet and absolutely gorgeous!

All that time with mike Tyson and Suarez hasn't done you any favours !!!!

 

[Nostrum]

This one's ace.

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They sell this in Tesco in the 'around the world' section. It's rocket fuel, very hot and looks like dog **** in a bag?

 

[zeebeedee]

I made my chilli.

Chopped . onion in a pan cook until white then add 1 teaspoon of paprika chilli and ground ***in and cook for another 5 mins.

Add the beef and brown.

The sauce Is 300 ml of beef stock 6 large tomatoes 1/2 teaspoon of majoram 1 teaspoon of sugar a good squeeze f n tomatoe purre.

Bring to the boil and then simmer for 20 mins

Add a tin of kidney beans and bring back to the boil simmer for 20 mins.

Enjoy! ;-)

 

[zeebeedee]

They sell this in Tesco in the 'around the world' section. It's rocket fuel, very hot and looks like dog **** in a bag?

Yeah it's rocket fuel alright I use half of what it says and it's still hot!

 

[PlumbersMate]

Kidney Beans for me are just the most pointless chilli ruiner ever, remind me of cockroaches! Missus gets hump because she makes me separate chilli without them lol

 

[WHPES]

I actually went scrumping the other week as some of the crops being grown around us at the moment are corn.

I couldn't resist eating an ear, raw, on the way home, so very sweet and absolutely gorgeous!

Reminds me of when we were about 10 we did this and ended up with tummyache. Of course what we had unknowingly picked was fodder maize and not sweetcorn.

 

[zeebeedee]

Kidney Beans for me are just the most pointless chilli ruiner ever, remind me of cockroaches! Missus gets hump because she makes me separate chilli without them lol

It's spicy spaghetti bol with rice with no kidney beans!!

 

[Ray Stafford]

I agree, the kidney beans add texture, and although they don't have a huge flavour of their own, they "carry" the chilli flavour.

Not chilli without beans.

 

[zeebeedee]

I agree, the kidney beans add texture, and although they don't have a huge flavour of their own, they "carry" the chilli flavour.

Not chilli without beans.

You can use about a thumb nails size piece of chocolate instead of sugar apparently the Mexicans insist on this

 

[Mrs Tara Plumbi]

I don't like cooking but I like eating and cooking is the chore to the end result.

However, I have gone right off cooking over the past 12 years.
Since having children and cooking for all the family who come to the table with no enthusiasm of appreciation for the effort made, not just that I have put healthy food there for them but I planned it and went to the shop, etc, etc....
I just want to cook for myself and stop looking after those fussy little people.

That's my complaining done.

I think almost any think tastes good cooked in oil.
Change the oil or the cooking method for different results - frying pan, wok, baked....
Beans on toast with fried mushooms, onions, toms, tofu, is one of my favourites - not really cooking just quick and delicious.

 

[Mrs Tara Plumbi]

This one's ace.

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Where do you buy it?

 

[zeebeedee]

My simple chicken casserole.

One onion 2 large carrots 3 sticks of celery. Soften in a pan with olive oil

Toss chicken in cornflour and brown in the pan

Add 600 ml chicken stock and bring to the boil.

Add 400 grams of baby potatoes

Stick in the oven for 45 mins

Add a tin of butter beans return to the oven and cook for another 10 Mins

 

[zeebeedee]

I made my chilli.

Chopped . onion in a pan cook until white then add 1 teaspoon of paprika chilli and ground ***in and cook for another 5 mins.

Add the beef and brown.

The sauce Is 300 ml of beef stock 6 large tomatoes 1/2 teaspoon of majoram 1 teaspoon of sugar a good squeeze f n tomatoe purre.

Bring to the boil and then simmer for 20 mins

Add a tin of kidney beans and bring back to the boil simmer for 20 mins.

Enjoy! ;-)

I will add I substitute the beef for Quorn mince as I don't eat red meat in the house l. You can't really tell the difference apart from the texture.

 

[zeebeedee]

Where do you buy it?

Chinese supermarket by ours chung fad. Most Chinese supermarket will sell it l. I work in the Chinese community they all love it

 

[oz-plumber]

I will add I substitute the beef for Quorn mince as I don't eat red meat in the house l. You can't really tell the difference apart from the texture.

I beg to differ!!

Nothing can be substituted for red meat.
Flavour wise, nor texture wise.

 

[Dotty]

I beg to differ!!

Nothing can be substituted for red meat.
Flavour wise, nor texture wise.

Says you whose culinary expertise involves chucking a raw prawn on the barbie....










I jest, I understand Australia is probably one of the best places to go to experience a wild variety of foods, quite often on the same plate.

 

[Toxic Ted]

Says you whose culinary expertise involves chucking a raw prawn on the barbie....









I jest, I understand Australia is probably one of the best places to go to experience a wild variety of foods, quite often on the same plate.

Yeah......they are on par with cambodia.....you can get dog, cat,rat and many others all on one plate

 

[PlumbersMate]

I will add I substitute the beef for Quorn mince as I don't eat red meat in the house l. You can't really tell the difference apart from the texture.

Why you not eat red meat at home Zeb?

 

[zeebeedee]

Why you not eat red meat at home Zeb?

hahaha! Nope and only the cow variety outside of home

 

[PlumbersMate]

hahaha! Nope and only the cow variety outside of home

Whys that?